Apple-parer.



No. 896,729.. PATBNTED AUG. 25, 1908.

D. P. HUNT.

' APPLE PARER, APPLICATION FILED JAN.20, 1908.

ms. NORRIS PETERS ca, wasmucrnu, n. c.

DAVID F. HUNT, OF SODUS, NEW YORK.

APPLE-PARER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 25, 1908.

Application filed J anuary 20, 1908. Serial No. 411,608.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID F. HUNT, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Sodus, in the county of Wayne and State of New York, haveinvented an Improvement in Apple-Parers, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is aspecification, like letters on the dram'ng representing like parts.

This invention relates to apple parers and especially to the means foroperating the doffer for pushing the apple from the fork after theparing operation is completed.

The object of the invention is to provide a novel mechanism for thispurpose which will insure the positive and proper operation of thedoffer.

I will first describe one embodiment of my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side view of an apple parer having myimprovements applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a to plan view of Fig. 1 Fig. 3is a front view 0 the turn table Fig. 4 is a section through the turntable on the line 00-90, Fig. 3.

3 is the frame of the apple parer which is provided with the usual clamp4 for clamping it to the edge of a table or support 5.

.This frame sustains the turn table 6 which carries the usual paringknife 7. The turn table is provided with gear teeth 8 on its peripherywhich mesh with and are driven by the teeth of a pinion 9 which is rigidwith the gear 10 to which the usual handle 11 is secured. The frame alsosustains the fork 12 which is suitably j ournaled in bearings 13 in theframe and which has rigid therewith the pinion 14 meshing with the gear10.

The knife 7 is pivoted to the turn table 6 and the frame is providedwith a. cam (not shown) which serves to throw the knife away from thefork at the proper time to permit an apple to be impaled on the fork andwhich allows the knife to be carried toward the fork by a spring 15 atthe proper time in the rotation of the turn table to pare the apple.

Apple parers having the construction thus far described are well known,and a further description of the operation of such an apple parer is notnecessary herein.

As stated above my invention relates to the doffer for pushing the paredapple from th?I fork and the means for operating the do" er.

The doffer is designated by 16, and it is carried by an arm 17 which ispivoted to the frame at 18. This arm has an extended end or tail portion19 which is adapted to be actuated by two cam ribs 20 and 21 formed onthe face of the turntable. The cam rib 20 is comparatively short and isarranged with one end 22 thereof nearer the periphery of the turn tablethan the other end 23 thereof.

The cam rib 21 is concentric With the turn table for the greater portionof its length, but at one end 24 it is curved outwardly toward theperiphery of the turn table and at such end it extends slightly beyondthe end 22 of the cam 20. The other end 25 of the cam rib 21 overlapsthe end 23 of the cam rib 20 thus leaving a space 26 between said ribs,which space is of proper size to receive the tail portion 19 of thedoffer arm 17.

The cam ribs are so arranged that when the turn table reaches theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the tail 19 of the do'ffer arm entersinto the space 26 between the -two cam ribs, and as the turn tablecontinues to rotate in the direction of the arrows, Figs. 1 and 3, thecam rib 2O acts on the tail 19 throwing the same outwardly therebypositively moving the doffer 16 inwardly to doff the apple from thefork; this operation occurring at the time that the knife 7 is beingthrown backwardly as usual.

' By the time that the apple is doffed the turn table has moved to bringthe end 24 of the rib 21 against the outer side of the tail 19, and saidcam by acting on the tail positively swings the 'doffer' backwardly intothe position shown in Fig. 1; and as the cam rib 21 is of a length toextend clear around to the end 23 of the cam 20 said cam 21 operates topositively hold the doffer in its retracted position until the doffer isagain positively moved for- Ward by the cam 20. This construction hasthe advantage that the movement of the doffer in both'directions is apositive movement, and there is no such liability that the doifer willfail to operate as is the case where springs are used for controllingthe doffer.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is The combination with a frame, of a turn tablepivoted thereon, a knife carried by the turn table, a fork, means torotate both the fork and the turn table, a doffer arm pivoted to theframe and carrying a doffer, said doffer having a tail 19 and tWo camribs 20 and 21 In testimony whereof, I have signed my formed on the turntable, the cam rib 20 bename to this specification, in the presence ofing eccentric to the aXis of the turn table and tWo subscribingWitnesses.

the cam rib 21 being concentric with said axis DAVID F. HUNT. throughoutthe greater portion of its length \Vitnesses:

and having its ends overlapping the ends of WILLIS D. CURTIss,

the cam rib 20. TI-IEO MERRITT.

